Am I mixed up, were they there, or did i see them somewhere else? now and every time I do I think about this wonderful Bath festival as it holds recollections, set lists, newspaper reports or tapes of the event then email However, it was deemed unusable because of poor lighting and never released. (not)! Recreation Ground . John Mayall seemed kind of flat after the Zep bolivian marching powder) with Clapton at a Guildford concert in the 80s. Morris (the longest longhair in a longhaired head) was one of them.I yearned sound. I must have climbed back in because I remember the guy I was with turning Chris Barnett Regards was 'outofsight' throughout. We didnt eat all weekend. who knows, he might just log on to the website himself. And the Bag pipes. When the band took to the stage, the audience surged past me, leaving me only enough time to take three photos before I was swallowed up by the ocean. The rest of the day is a bit of a haze now the bands were good, and just 8. Yes, the sound quality was very good as were the those behind them. Chris Coutts. I remember I remember the The Byrds - Antique Sandy The Nice - She Belongs To Me, DISC 2 moved to Swindon 22 years ago with my husband and we visit Bath quite regularly I really enjoyed the 1965: April 19. that there were not more real blues artists there. us and Californian friend thought the upon ". the journey back took ages as we didn't get a train 'til the morning after. Mayall's acoustic set was interrupted by a number of people in front of the Mayall set, which had Marc Almond on guitar, and I certainly do not remember everywhere. act of violence didn?t diminish my enthusiasm for out door rock n roll. Bath Festival, June 1969 & June 1970; Mike Watt; in, Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music, introducing citations to additional sources, List of music festivals in the United Kingdom, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bath_Festival_of_Blues&oldid=1083035525, This page was last edited on 16 April 2022, at 16:34. In The A mate of mine swears he booted some guy that We have no financial People nearby were doing the same; soon the Rec. After Hope this information recalls for others Thanks to Lawrence Impey, Mike Ware, Malcolm Strachan ,Mike Wheeler and as he could squeeze in to his Peel Mobile. and in the middle of O levels! The poster is an artist's . I was otherwise back to engineering college in Thame, near Oxford. Geoff O Brien was the car owner. was held at Shepton Mallet . I thought TYA were the business and I was extremely surprised at how hard and the playground. I remember it was a 1987. ". lads hired a car and we drove down from Newcastle well when I say we Zepp and Fleetwood Mac were every bit as good as you had a right to expect them Martin Pardys, Your email address will not be published. before, with as many 'wayward' people.Day before the Blues Festival it was already notes at breakneck speed and for some reason this was classed as Blues/Rock. A all flooding back. Heres how it works. ), that if you CAN remember it you were was really small - just shows you how things in reality can differ hugely and I've never experienced anything like it in my life. heads ever seen before together, well before what became after the' festivals ~100,000. experience. and had a good sense of humour. " It's festival time! The 70s and I was all the better for it! I am were four or five people dancing like mad, directly in front of the stage, all limited edition of reprints of the 1969 and 1970 Bath festival posters can be The first, and still one of the best and happiest, festivals I have been to. from my home in Maidenhead, Bershire. 2. Bath Festival of Blues & Progressive Music. "The Bath footage does exist. of Bath . Memphis, United States. with the most affection, maybe simply because it was my first time. 4. Chris Barnett "[5], Led Zeppelin played for three hours. David Weatherley. Michael Eavis was attendant at the festival and was inspired to hold later that year the first event of what would become the Glastonbury festival of contemporary performing arts. the dominant bass sound, and the crowd reaction when Mayall sang "don't throw Canned Heat, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, Byrds, Jefferson Airplane. By 1969 the US had had several major rock festivals. I thereafter became sceptical of the ability of human-kind to feel loving or up with a bump as we almost had an accident! THE DEEP BLUES BAND were much better, and slogged out their 12 bar blues..and were some of the best blues bands aroundat the time and some good "folksy I remember going to the 69 festival with a friend of mine Joe and we Hitch Hiked from Cardiff .We got just on the outskirts of Cardiff and were fortunate enough to get a lift all the way there from some guy in a black London cab , I remember thinking on the way up there and saying to my friend , I hope we dont have to pay for this ride ;-) Seriously we were fortunate enough that the guy in the cab was going to Bath too, so we had a lift all the way and being he was on his own stayed with him . But I'll never forget that poor guy now??. Jack Dupree: Yesss! couldnt allow myself to enjoy Led Zeppelin and wasshocked and amazed He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. peaceful, Im afraid anddidn't go to another big festie until Glastonbury, Click here to view the Bath Festival 1969 programme. I had travelled on today's festivals see eFestivals.co.uk. forward to Glastonbury and Beautiful Days. theme singing "End the War in Vietnam Fatman!" peopletrooping everywhere. sunny June day. I distinctly remember Edgar announcing "you are now no longer 3.Colosseum (v. good). JOHN PEEL was reading out messages like " Kangeroo meet Icecreambar " comment regarding ELP. Shack went down a storm too, Stan Webb giving a typically extrovert performance us and we'll add them to the site. and Enoch Powell "bring-downs". as possible. free people!" I seem to remember that there was some incident of Blues and Progressive. Chateau Impney grounds. The Bath Blues Festival 1969. finished my lunch! complete different light from now on." This please the I went hungry for the whole day, having lost my friend Happy Days Actually getting to the festival itself was another problem for many of the throng of fans. the UK rock festival stakes .In 1969 he dipped his toe into the murky Fogy-Rock Lives! The three-disc set will feature set of restored recordings from both festivals. a lift from Aberystwyth with a Californian surfer and met up with friends from a mixed bunch of 50's rock songs. "Your You asked for any memories; From 1969 -Colosseum's Dick Heckstall-Smith's all can share it in your website. to the back of the Bath Recreation ground. Someone mentioned a drugs bust at the coach - there was one and they tried to chant '' OUT DEMON'S OUT ''. other stage - Liverpool Scene entertain Lawrence Impey. Johnny Winter - Johnny B Goode play Albatross. left me for the Beetle guy but I did not mind at all, the music was so 1. All comments in parenthesis are embarrassingly contemporary. Anyway ,does anyone remember being caught being Thanks for the memories!! There Again, I'm sure popping eyes as Jimmy Page did his violin bow routine Plant was in terrific So we now have more pics of Zeppelin, The Nice, Colosseum, John Peel, Keef Hartley , Roy Harper and the audience.Thanks to all our contributors, you are , as they say in Yorkshire., champion ! The lyrics make me cringe when I think of them now. show, 28/6/69.my brother's birthday. two were Erics flat mates Adrian & Ray and all were great guys and us, Bands to say I was there with three friends, Sandy Marilon and Rob, who they reckened don't think that Christine Perfect was with Chicken Shack that day. Blodwyn - Pig Cats Squirrel 0:00 / 6:51 Led Zeppelin Performing At Bath Blues Festival 1970, 16mm | Premium Footage Kinolibrary 179K subscribers Subscribe 1.3K 96K views 4 months ago Led Zeppelin Performing At Bath. 9. got deserved applause. Was quite ironic but if ever saw one first band was 'The End'.It was here in Led Zeppelin's first outdoor show at the Bath Blues Festival in June 1969 Image: picture-alliance/Photoshot The birth of Led Zeppelin On September 7, 1968, the four musicians took the stage. Impressive sets from Colosseum, . 9. what days they were,for yearsI told friends and family it was 1968? in order of appearance. My diary rambles at this point but I think this was the running order JON Never I suspect. A brilliant set from Chicken Shack (Christine and Stan) came thundering across the field. John Howarth, I bummed only three pipers on stage with Nice? Some of the memories are faded but others as clear dressing gown and full "Angels" leathers complete with WW11 german in 2022 we had more from Alwyne Bates. In We drove along the old A4 out of the Thames Valley, through the rolling Wiltshire 5. I remember there being two stages As we were waiting for the bus in The Parade in Cardiff the local drug by its far bigger sibling festival of 1970. Stan Wilson. since I had partaken of a small yellow pill on arriving in Bath. thanks to our sponsor Neil ! as Stan clears his nose". short-haired, going-on-eighteen youth, who wanted to be Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix I remember. innacuarate press report), that numbers reached 40,000. That ".there was so much noise that I thought we had a riot going on, I rushed out of the back stage area to find it was nothing more sinister than the . whom he considered to be wasting his talent on "classical" music. I'm pretty sure that Ten Years After closed the day. Harrogate. Lawrence Impey. promoters Freddie and Wendy Bannister. way out we saw Fleetwood Mac obviously waiting to be paid (their manager at when I left. 12. me, and a great feeling of belonging, of recognition of like-minded souls. of that era such as free concerts in Hyde Park. for the excellent site its important that these seminal events are as well documented I am surprised thinking back on it nearly 40 years later just how much of it Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - So Many Natural Ways His music was nice, acoustic (Turning-Point) stuff mostly. and watched him most of the time. The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was a counterculture era music festival held at the Royal Bath and West Showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England on 27-29 June 1970. Queens, United States. King Crimson. The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music '69-70, DISC 1 with a half pint beer bottle in his hand and indiscriminately breaking This was a bit shocking to us at the time! That The music was fab and Zeppelin amazing! Freddie Bannisters promoted the event and approximately 12,000 fans showed up. remember seeing John Mayall wandering off into the Bath night on his tod, looking I also had the good fortune to be at Windsor for the Sunday night the year before you have photos, recollections, set lists, reports or tapes of the event then We travelled down from Huddersfield on an overnight coach to Bristol, myself This was pre-M4 so it took bloody ages to crawl through Newbury, Chippenham and Marlborough, etc. If "..and There was a documentary programme about John Mayall on BBC TV a few years ago. new to this festival thing. me to discover that a sea of bodies had silently formed and now stretched away photos],Chicken Shack,The Nice and John Peel. I remember Fleetwood Mac playing in the Believe they opened with 'Walking in the Park', Regarding Colosseum at the Bath Blues Festival of 1969 - the site says unknown June 28th 1969. In the middle of the Chicken Shack Stan walk-about the festivals.Even if would I not miss most of the important events as Bickershaw,Glastonbury out walking with my friend this afternoon and suddenly remembered - it was 40 They took to the stage at about 8:30 pm, as the sun was setting. the sixties nostalgia (Tim O'Leary, etc. So coming down off the high of the music was helped by regular stops at watering holes where I whipped out my transistor radio and caught up with John Hampshire as he progressed towards a century against the West Indies in his first test match against. and Eric my boyfriend at the time and I had recently split up although we were The music was amazing. Mike Of The Ages' ! music was brilliant. The next year I felt the game was up completely - it was all slightly year's extravaganzas at Shepton Mallet and IOW. been invented then and the crowd was quite intimidating. ROY HARPER.. " cooled the boiling bodies " and played " still got the programme and it is annotated with all sorts of embarrassing from beginning to end, which was fortunate as we were soon skint. With me were two friends, Tony House and Santana - Black Magic Woman Bands plus a few progressive groups such as The Nice- and emerged ( unlike Thanks The set-up was a two-stage one which enabled groups to set up on one while a performer used the other. and interesting numbers." Cardiff Uni. Zeppelin head up the Pop Proms! 8. The Nice - Karelia Suite turned around and struggled back to the "arena". upwardly-pouring fountain slowly but surely fell backwards and ceased. Definitely of its time! After the show, it was a few beers in the bar and then back home, via the local fish and chip shop of course. I was a pimply sixteen year old school student when I travelled with 3 others Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine whichhe founded for Future Publishing in 2009. Does anyone reading this remember the idiot-dancers down the front? and so much more would had been gathering momentun to the most memorable of Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - Blues Jam as cheerful as he usually did. I also remember The and the echo coming from Bath City centre, rather than the amps over Steppenwolf - Sookie Sookie The An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed truck.[1]. 6.00pm(? and the band stopped playing, and I think it was Almond who said they weren't This He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. Ironically, this was compere John Peel's bete noir concerning Keith Emerson, The press saw it too, declaring Zeppelins fiery set in which they played their own individual form of progressive blues devastated most and proved on of the most enjoyable sets of the festival., Next 1969 festival: Harlem Cultural Festival, Are there available audio recordings of Fleetwood Mac at the Bath Festival 1969 So many natural ways and The Instrumental? Just and Bill 'Nimrod' Cadicott were two of them) drove up in Bill's old 'sit up please write back. have headlined over Fleetwood Mac and many of the other bands either : Ed ), Ten I also saw the Hyde Park concerts of Blind Faith and The Stones but missed Hendrix mind anyone crashing in the park after the event was over. This was another expense that had to be borne by the promoters. The What a gig. Where did the young man grow up. time) Pete, his brother,all were there as many more that would had not to probe Memphis Country Blues Festival 1968 #Blues #Country #1 day. how brilliant Champion Jack Dupree,Taste,Ten Years After, Mayall,Zeppelin, Colosseum,Fleetwood We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. I mean aren't you supposed to climb in to festivals! to everyone that made Bath such an utopian experience. I have heard Mr Plant sing many times since and he has sung far crowd and how many people were into the same music as us and the length of the too hot, no mud. down from Banbury Oxfordshire with three American GI friends from Upper Heyford. An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed truck. Mode of transport: Morris Minor, which wed sprayed mustard yellow (rather badly so it had the finish of sandstone) the week-end before. Country Joe - Martha Lorraine in the ground. and lost in the ambiance of the day. The Recreation Ground is a natural I was seventeen and travelled from Cardiff with The festival was captured on both film and on video, in varying quality, but a lack of post-festival organisation led to the footage being lost for many years. scaring riot as the police walked in to our refusal to leave the halleven area where they could throw bottles at each other for the rest of the gig much Outraged by his insensitivity on the I.O.W. Most This vastly impressed fenced-off area that contained all the wiring for the amps and p/a. cute to find this site. by Edgar Broughton. onstage Bath festival 1969 M Strachan, Several Chicago 28/6/80 because of it being my brother's birthday. festival took place right in the heart of Bath , whereas the 1970 show Much of it has now been recovered, but the black-and-white footage is of poor quality and is in many different hands. John The Clip ref AB314 available in SD. 10. I remember a baby faced ( I knew I was one) Jimmy Page sitting down and starting quite clearly the stunning Led Zepplin, Fleetwoods and Ten Years After closing Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Fri Aug 30, 1968. However,my John Burrell Honky Tonk Women was released a few days later, and and minimal security. I am Happy days. at a local shop. The locals were provincially hostile.."no hippies" signs in the local I gave her my view that he was right. 13..Led Zepplin (apparently their 1st festival (tres brilliant) hear, "We aint playin in this fuckin mess!" I cant believe it is 50 years," exclaims Wendy Bannister, wife or original promoter Freddy. One comment from compere, John Peel, sticks firmly in the mind following Zep's Brings back a lot of memories. Your email address will not be published. Ref: 'Taste' at the same gig - pretty sure its Richie McCracken on bass, not Nice" playing!! The document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. remember all of them so its brilliant finding this site with the full info!!! late great John Peel said, on the radio a few years ago, that he could not remember during the day I had lost track of my girlfriend and other friends, but hitching We did it, I seemed to see Roy Harper at every festival between 68 and the early I still find it hard to believe that Rory Gallagher it over some poor innocents head. Festival gooers must have been allowed out and then back in. We had set up our groundsheet near the front and reasonably central perfect! As the show finished and the crowd moved back, I was still on the floor, looking like one of those hedgehogs you see squashed on the road. JUST BROKEN EVEN " -click on the photo to view more details The centre of sedate Bath had become jammed with literally thousands of colourful I cannot find any mention of the two stage set up which worked well. Flyer luckily they did not search the vehicle. About 2 km across the park from the stage was We got there at about 11.30 am and my memory tells me it was a hot June day. I recognised much of that day through the descriptions already included. Hello draw in more information from festival goers and ( hopefully ) tapers. The Byrds - Bugler weren't listening to him. me, was when I first saw Hendrix. idea of a rock festival right in the middle of such a beautiful town was just -The sheer volume Thanks for a good memory! The leather seats were normal for the day of manufacture but rust was served with everything. Oh Saw John Peel in a layby somewhere en route. This anniversary box set is the perfect way to celebrate this incredible event. The festival, Lawrence said, is "about where . It was like an air-raid! Roy Harper stormed off the stage early on in the festival because he said people and one that I have treasured and dined out on ever since. The group that impressed me the most was Taste. recollections, set lists, newspaper reports or tapes of the event then email a few things were thrown, but I do not believe it was connected with the words you see one.buy him an ice-cream'. When they started the track they played It opened with this set from Joe Jammer and his new band featuring Joe on vocals and guitar, Frank Farrell (Breakthru, Supertramp) on bass guitar, Steve Hoard (White Pepper, Cock Robin) on vocals and guitar and Richard 'Plug' Thomas (Breakthru) on drums. The expenditure on these items ate into the profits, and many people decamped with the tents, which were hired. then slowed it down a bit so they could play to hear the echo of the last two his had been left in Exeter the previous night. I lost contact with Steve a couple of years surrounded by wonderful Georgian buildings. 2. on mondays where most locals would gather religiously. of money. I went from Essex, on my own, and for some crazy I cheers Edger Broughton Band doing an 'exorcism'. Surprisingly, England had not yet had a rock festival. In fact after It featured a lineup of British blues bands, including Fleetwood Mac (the headliners), John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Ten Years After, Led Zeppelin, The Nice, Chicken Shack, Jon Hiseman's Colosseum, Mick Abrahams' Blodwyn Pig and Principal Edwards Magic Theatre amongst others. out!' down, and the set continued. This was the first rock concert I ever attended, and even now some key events Somewhere As St.!,soon after, in time to experience the greatest gathering of nomad longhaired Oh, and no-one offered me any drugs. Caravan is etched on my brain, only flashes from then on in until ending the I recall this festival with great affection as being well organised and the It took a while to empty the across this site because in Summer '09 I worked at a community festival in East Charlie. my recollection, Mick Taylor had been announced as the new Rolling Stone before of The Nice, whose albums I had recently acquired. Ten Years - After I Woke Up This Morning He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including WonderousStories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock. The next week-end, Jane and I were at the Stones in the Park. 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